What should you know about Max Weber if you have taken this course?
Basic Biographical Facts
Major Works & Blurbs
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
"Class, Status, and Party"
Class as economic dimension — class position = market position; social status as independent dimension of inequality based on social honor; class and status interact; party as organized efforts, based on class and/or status, to influence legal rules that affect class and status.
"Politics as a Vocation"
Ethic of ultimate ends vs. ethic of responsibility
"Bureaucracy"
B as an ideal type (of social organization) has seven characteristics: business as an ongoing concern, offices function according to rules, offices are organized hierarchically, officials do not own tools & resources, work and home are strictly separated, office is not owned by the incumbent, business based on written documents
"Types of Legitimate Domination"
Legitimate authority as sub-type of power. Three types: traditional, legal-rational, charismatic.
Economy and Society
Magnum opus, published posthumously, contains most of his well known writings (including "Bureaucracy," "Domination," "Class, Status, & Party")
Concepts and Terms
ideal type
Protestant Ethic
spirit of capitalism
worldly asceticism
ethic of ultimate ends
ethic of responsibility
bureaucracy
legitimacy
domination/authority
power
legal-rational
traditional
charismatic
class
status
party
social honor
consumption